Google Summer of Code

General information

This wiki page will be the central point for information about the Google Summer of Code 2015 at Debian. The Google Summer of Code is a program where Google pays students stipends to work over the summer on free software projects such as Debian. Each student works with one or more mentors from the community to complete a software project. The Google Summer of Code has started again this year.

Debian has been selected as a mentoring organization for 2015! We want to make the experience even more exciting and fulfilling this year for the students, the mentors and the whole Debian community this year, so please join us!

Ideas list / Participating / Applying

I want to participate as student

Debian has been picked as a mentoring organization! Now is a good time to start perusing our project ideas page, and to start engaging with potential mentors. Please join us on one of our communication channels and let us know what you would like to do!

You have until March 27th 2015 19:00 UTC to contact us and to apply on the Google Summer of Code application. But do not wait until last minute! The sooner you contact the mentor of the project you are interested in, the better.

Join the communication channels of the teams or persons involved with the subject you would like to work on and discuss it. Don't be afraid to suggest seemingly crazy or vague ideas, we'll help you and give you suggestions. If you're lost (or even not!), drop in the communication channels of the Summer of Code team mentioned below. Remember that early preparation is a guarantee that your proposal will be better!

Guidelines for GSoC Projects in Debian

Our mentors are strongly encouraged to provide prospective students with some small (i.e. that can be accomplished in at most a few hours) task related to the proposed project. This will help both the mentor and student decide if they are a suitable match for each other and the project. In the case that the Debian GSoC team has to rank projects, the results of this small task will also help give confidence in a project-mentor-student matchup.

First round of de-duplication checks happens; organizations work together to try to resolve as many duplicates as possible.

April 24:

All mentors must be signed up and all student proposals matched with a mentor - 07:00 UTC. Student acceptance choice deadline. IRC meeting to resolve any outstanding duplicate accepted students - 19:00 UTC #gsoc

April 27: 19:00 UTC

Accepted student proposals announced on the Google Summer of Code 2015 site.

Community Bonding Period:

Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects.

May 25:

Students begin coding for their Google Summer of Code projects; Google begins issuing initial student payments provided tax forms are on file and students are in good standing with their communities.

Mentor Summit at Google: Representatives from each successfully participating organization are invited to Google to greet, collaborate and code. Our mission for the weekend: make the program even better, have fun and make new friends.